Posts by nick987

Hi,   The HD replacement worked well and the 510 lives again!   The system is not retaining the date between logins - I guess this means the reserve battery behind the main battery, needs to be replaced. Do you...

Thanks qhn,   I had missed the use of PATA as a name for ATA - should keep up better!   Many thanks   Nick

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 510, unfortunately the hard drive has died [repeated clicking, no access!]   It was an Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB IDE / ATA drive.   Is a WD PATA drive suitable as a replacement? e.g. WD...